vermont department of corrections

Protect Vermonters by operating safe, humane, and secure facilities and by preparing offenders to become productive law-abiding community citizens.

DOC staff support and partner with communities to enhance safety and quality of life by ensuring offenders take responsibility for their crimes and make amends to crime victims and society.

Community participation and support are essential for the successful delivery of correctional services.

People can change.

Victims have the right to have an active role in determining how their needs can best be met.

Offenders are responsible, to the extent possible, to repair harm done to victims and the community

DOC Principles DOC Principles

Central offices located in Waterbury

Probation and parole offices overseeing approximately 10,000 individuals

Eight correctional facilities in…

•St Johnsbury is Caledonia Work Camp

•St. Johnsbury is Northeast Regional

•South Burlington is Chittenden Regional

•Rutland is Marble Valley

•Newport is Northern State

•Swanton is Northwest State

•Windsor is Southeast State

•Springfield is Southern State

Eight correctional facilities in…

•St Johnsbury is Caledonia Work Camp

•St. Johnsbury is Northeast Regional

•South Burlington is Chittenden Regional

•Rutland is Marble Valley

•Newport is Northern State

•Swanton is Northwest State

•Windsor is Southeast State

•Springfield is Southern State

Offender Population Offender Population

DOC Program Services

The department’s Program Services group oversees treatment and educational services for offenders to include:

substance abuse,

domestic violence,

work,

post-secondary education,

sex offender and violent offender treatment, and

female & family services

DOC Program ServicesCommunity High School of Vermont

Required of inmates under the age of 23 who do not have a diploma or GED.

Accredited, diploma granting high school run in correctional facilities.

Highest secondary enrollment in Vermont.

DOC Program Services

Women’s Services

Women’s Services

creating and maintaining a gender responsive and trauma informed approach to woman within the

correctional system

This includes the Incarcerated Woman’s Initiative focused on keeping woman out of jail and with their families, the woman’s only facility in Swanton, in some locations probation officers with all woman case loads, and staff training.

DOC Program Services

Vermont Treatment Program for Sexual Abusers

Vermont Treatment Program for Sexual Abusers

a nationally acclaimed program that uses contracted licensed therapists to teach offenders how to accept, understand, modify and maintain permanent changes in behavior relating to illegal sexual behavior.

DOC Program Services

Offender Work Programs

Offender Work Programs

designed with the understanding that individuals who are busy and productive are less likely to get in to trouble, more likely to feel better, and have more skills in increase their post incarceration employment opportunities.

Vermont Correctional Industries

Community Work Programs

Habits of Mind training program

In fiscal year 2008 over 400,000 hours of community service were provided by DOC work crews

DOC Program Services

Cognitive Self Change for Violent Offenders

How to identify thoughts and attitudes that lead to violent acts

How to find and use new thoughts and attitudes that don't.

Learning and demonstrating the ability to perform four skills: • Pay attention to your thinking.

• Recognize when your thoughts and feelings are leading you toward committing a violent or criminal action.

• Think of new thinking that will lead you away from violence and crime, and that you can feel OK with yourself when you think it.

• Practice using this new thinking in real life situations.

DOC Program Services

Domestic Violence Programs

Independent community organizations provide certified batterer intervention programs for probation-level cases

Intensive Domestic Abuse Program (IDAP) which occurs for felony level sexual offenders who are on pre-approved furlough in the community.

Incarcerated Domestic Abuse Program (InDAP) which occurs within the facility

Support the safety and well-being of victims, children and the community

Hold offenders accountable for their choices, and

Support offenders in their process of change.

Support the safety and well-being of victims, children and the community

Hold offenders accountable for their choices, and

Support offenders in their process of change.

Substance Abuse Programs

DOC Program Services

Intensive Substance Abuse Program (ISAP)

Discovery: Therapeutic Community @ Caledonia Work Camp

Residential & Outpatient Treatment @ Northwest

Evolutions: Therapeutic Community @ Windsor Work Camp

Tapestry: community based residential treatment for woman

DOC Field Services

11 community-based facilities, also called probation and parole

Supervises offenders according to severity of their risk to re-offend

Administers the Vermont Reparative Probation Program

Interstate Compact Agreement

DOC Field Services

Restorative Community Justice

Engages community partners in the correctional process. 

Focuses on effective re-entry strategies and programs for offenders. 

Repair injuries to people and the community by encouraging and supporting parties with a stake in a particular offense to

participate in its resolution.

Victim Services Unit Quality Assurance Unit

Housing Program.

Restorative Community Justice

Victim Services

Information, assistance, and support to victims of crime

In fiscal year 2008, over 1,000 victims received

services

Vermont Automated Notification Services or VANS

Victim Offender Dialog Program

Victim Impact Panels

Programs include:

Facility Services

Woman’s Facility

Sex Offender Treatment Program

Mental Health Unit

Largest Infirmary

Classification and Out of State Units

Classification Unit

Determines which facility an offender will be placed in initially or transferred to based on the which programs he or she will participate in.

Out of State Unit

Oversees inmate placements to out of state prisons mostly in Kentucky and West Tennessee. Placements out of state are necessary to alleviate crowding in Vermont prisons. About 700 out of approximately 2,200 inmates are placed out of state.

Health Services

The Director of Health Services manages the contracts for health services for inmates, responds to grievances and ADA complaints.

The department also has a Mental Health Services Chief, psychologist and chief nurse on staff; all other health services are contracted out

The Director of Health Services manages the contracts for health services for inmates, responds to grievances and ADA complaints.

The department also has a Mental Health Services Chief, psychologist and chief nurse on staff; all other health services are contracted out

Volunteer Services

Lisa Menard, DOC Deputy Commissioner

Lisa.Menard@ahs.state.vt.us

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